Autonomous system
AS22690 AxiomNET-AS
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
TransAfrica Communications
isp rwanda business transit
AxiomNET-AS is operated by TransAfrica Communications, formerly known as Axiom Networks Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries business-grade internet services, MPLS private networks, and last-mile connectivity, as indicated by the operator's service offerings and the netname
ORG-ANL5-AFRINIC. - With 3072 IPv4 addresses announced across 2 prefixes and 9 observed neighbours, the ratio suggests a regional access or eyeball network providing connectivity to end-users and businesses rather than a major transit provider.
Notable
- Registrants for both announced prefixes (
196.223.240.0/21and41.242.140.0/22) are listed as Axiom Networks Ltd, consistent with the announcer, though the company has since rebranded. - Axiom Networks Rwanda rebranded to TransAfrica Communications (TrAC) to expand into regional and international markets.
- The inventory consists of two IPv4 blocks and one IPv6 prefix (
2c0f:6100::/32), all located in Rwanda.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 2 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Asteroid Mombasa | Mombasa, Kenya | 196.60.66.38 |
| Rwanda Internet exchange | Kigali, Rwanda | 196.223.12.223 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 3.07K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RW | Rwanda | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2013-12-02
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 15 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS22690
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 15 of 15 announcements
- Route objects
- 20 naming AS22690
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere